Westinghouse AP1000® Plant to Load Fuel

Landmark milestone for Westinghouse technology

April 25, 2018 08:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SANMEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse
Electric Company, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation
(SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited (SMNPC) announced
today that the world’s first unit of AP1000 nuclear power plant located
in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, China, has received the fuel load permit
from China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and has
commenced initial fuel loading.

“Today we have reached a tremendous milestone for Westinghouse and our
AP1000 plant technology,” said José Emeterio Gutiérrez, Westinghouse
president and chief executive officer. “This is the next major step in
delivering the world’s first AP1000 plant to our customer and
demonstrating the benefits of our advanced passive safety technology to
the world.”

Sanmen Unit 1 has successfully completed all the necessary functional
tests as well as technical, safety and Chinese regulatory reviews. The
fuel load process will be followed by initial criticality, initial
synchronization to the electrical grid, and conservative, step by step,
power ascension testing, until all testing is safely and successfully
completed at 100% power.

“This major project milestone marks the start of the final commissioning
program for Sanmen Unit 1,” said David Durham, Westinghouse New Projects
Business senior vice president. “I am confident that our teams will
continue to operate at the highest levels – at Sanmen, as well as the
Haiyang and Vogtle projects and in our ongoing support of the worldwide
operating fleet.”

Commenting on Westinghouse’s partnership with the Chinese government and
suppliers as key contributors to the successful delivery of clean
energy, Gavin Liu, president – Asia Region stated, “Westinghouse is
proud to be a partner in China’s forward-looking nuclear energy program,
an effort that will provide clean-air electricity to power China’s
economy. Through technology transfer, localization and infrastructure
development, Westinghouse continues to collaborate with our Chinese
partners and supports the development of China’s nuclear power industry.”

In 2007, Westinghouse successfully won the bid for China’s generation
III+ nuclear power projects to build two units of AP1000 reactors in
Sanmen, Zhejiang Province and two units in Haiyang, Shandong Province.
The company has two additional units currently under construction at the
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia.